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Volume 2 of Paul Kletzki’s Beethoven cycle exhibits more of the special virtues found in Vol. 1. Symphony No. 4 especially benefits from Kletzki’s clear-textured
As Paul Kletzki’s 1960s Beethoven cycle reaches its end, we are reminded of a time when recording projects such as this were rare and special
Now that the record companies’ self-imposed “no new Beethoven cycles until 2000” is at an end, can we expect the floodgates to reopen once more?
Fans of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto will need no urging from me to snap up this classic performance, which, in Josef Suk features one of our
It’s hard to believe that a concert recorded exactly 10 years ago already can lay claim to “legendary” status. In this case, the call is
Since the 18th century, the Czech Republic has provided the world with an amazing number of great–or at least good–composers. Here are nine of them,
Cherubini was the best organized of composers, even to the point where he wrote his own Requiem Mass, for orchestra and male choir. Given the
This admirable collection contains good to excellent performances of just about all the orchestral music that Janácek wrote. The only major missing items, aside from
In the early to mid-1960s, the Czech Philharmonic recorded a large quantity of French music under a series of excellent French conductors, including Jean Fournet,
